At a press conference on Friday, California Gov. Newsom announced a new gun control bill. Texas has a controversial abortion ban that is enforced by private citizens.
The bill encourages California residents to go after gunmakers, distributors of ghost guns, and illegal assault weapons through civil litigation.
The bill in Texas that prohibits abortion after six weeks is similar to the one in California that allows citizens to file lawsuits against abortion providers.
It's time to go on the offensive with new measures that empower individuals to hold irresponsible and negligent gun industry actors to account, crack down on shameful advertising that targets our kids, and more. This is not about attacking law-abiding gun owners, it is about stopping the tragic violence that plagues communities across the country.
If the Supreme Court upheld the Texas abortion ban, then the proposed California one would have to be upheld as well, according to a vocal critic of the Texas law.
They opened the door. They set the tone. Either we can complain about it or we can play by the rules. The governor said that they were going to play by the rules.
We will see how principled the US Supreme Court is.
The Firearms Policy Coalition, an organization focused on the Right to Bear Arms, released a statement about the proposal.
In a just world, a woman's right to choose would be sacrosanct, and California's people would be protected from ghost guns and assault weapons. The Supreme Court decision has turned common sense on its head, according to the Senate Majority Leader.
Experts expressed concern about these types of bills, which can be used to skirt the Constitution, and said that laws that allow citizens to enforce state laws would lead to a state of surveillance.
Jon D. Michaels, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Insider that it was one thing for the state to tell you to behave, but another for your neighbor to tell you.
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